University Hospital restricts service after power outage

University Hospital stopped accepting patients after a fire at the University of Cincinnati power plant. The hospital and surrounding buildings were operating on backup generators until service could be restored.

Ohio (Cincinnati News) June 15, 2010 -- A substation fire knocked out electrical service for many people in Cincinnati, Ohio and shut down portions of a nearby hospital.

University Hospital stopped accepting patients about 12:30 p.m. after a fire at the University of Cincinnati power plant at Rochelle Street and Glendora Avenue.

Witnesses reported seeing some black smoke coming from a transformer on top of the nearby environmental protection agency, but no fire was reported and officials said the explosion was unrelated to the outage.

Duke Energy reported 5,500 outages at 12:40 p.m. in Clifton and Corryville, but power was quickly restored to many of those customers.

The hospital and some surrounding buildings were operating on backup generators until service could be restored. No injuries have been reported in connection with the blown transformer, and hospital officials said patient safety was compromised at no time during the outage.

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Source: DHS Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report